Does SAIC’s machine translation solution mean the end for translators?

I have been wanting to post this newswire ever since it came out. Please read and then post your own comments at the bottom!  MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI] today announced its linguistics technology offering, with the industry’s first hybrid machine translation (HMT) solution. The linguistics technology...

An Interpreting Tale- How we all affect each other

While attending the small business matchmaker event in Dayton OH today, I got into a conversation with the representative of a large Ohio healthcare organization. After telling the woman what my company did and where we were from (Cincinnati), she said to me, “Are you from the company whose interpreters sleep on the job?” Of course I said “No, “ because I was not, but, after further...

Globalization, Tajikistan, and the buying power of Hispanics- random Tuesday thoughts

I have a variety of news sources as well as translation industry sources that I check each day to see what is new, what is happening, what I don’t want to miss. I also have my office team and even members of my family always on the lookout for anything interesting or relevant to the translation/interpreting world. I love current events and feel that it is important to know what people are...

The Translation Biz- Glass Half Full, Glass Half Empty?

There is a lot for translation/localization professionals to worry about, both translation companies and translators themselves. There is a lot of competition out there for work; again, not only for individual translators but for language services companies too. Technology and globalization are changing this industry fast. A year or so ago, at a meeting of LSP professionals, I heard a speaker...

This article caught my attention, I love articles on globalization! It is someone else’s opinion but worth a quick read!!

Globalization is killing Europe, just as it’s already wiped out much of the American middle class. Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are paying for those benefits aren’t making anything close to the income (or, therefore,...